Deventer is a city and municipality in the Salland historical region of the province of Overijssel, Netherlands. In 2020 the municipality of Deventer had a population of 100,913. The city is largely situated on the east bank of the river IJssel, but it also has a small part of its territory on the west bank. In 2005 the municipality of Bathmen was merged with Deventer as part of a national effort to reduce bureaucracy in the country
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Image: Deventer Lebuiniskerk
Image: Deventer, straatzicht de Brink positie 1 foto 7 2012 02 05 11.49
Image: Stadhuis Deventer voorgevel
Image: Deventer, Lebuinuskerk en Mariakerk
Salland is a historical dominion in the west and north of the present Dutch province of Overijssel. Nowadays Salland is usually used to indicate a region corresponding to the part of the former dominion more or less to the west of Twente.
Salland in 1757 (the area with yellow borders; Hardenberg in the north-east is shown as a separate region)